Category: Gaming

Subscription plans can be great for everyone – publisher gets a guaranteed revenue stream, subscriber gets highly discounted product they know they already like. Looking to that model IndieGameStand, a site focused on connecting small developers to gamers, has announced new ‘Elite Membership’. For $14/month or less, get 7+ handpicked indie games, a storewide discount, and more.

The most popular, single Kickstarter campaign ever is for the upcoming card game Exploding Kittens with over 219,000 supporters that was the third-biggest Kickstarter moneymaker ever with approximately 8.8 million dollars.

Every Friday I love seeing the emails from GoG.com announcing what amazing new sale they are featuring that weekend. This time we get a bunch of games from not one but TWO publisher catalogs! Classics such as Evil Genius, the Empire Earth series, Blood and more are all on sale for 70% off until next Tuesday!

The Order: 1886 has revealed itself as a the PlayStation 4 exclusive as a single-player, third person shooter game that takes place during an alternative time in history in a Victorian-era London, England with familiar identifying elements including King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table.

Before Kingdom Hearts 3 releases, players can revisit the popular gaming series in this latest “ReMIX”, which was preceded by the successful Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX. Players get includes Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix, and Kingdom Hearts Re:coded.

Frozen Synapse is one of the best games available for the iPad, a perfect fit for the touchscreen even after it built a loyal fanbase on the PC. It has been widely praised and remains one of the most recommended games even two years after release. Now it is getting something new – it is FREE for the first time!

Last year we heard about a new educational game called S.M.A.R.T. Adventures Mission Math, which was a STEM game, aimed at girls – but was fun for pretty much anyone. I had some fun playing around with the game when it was released, and was glad for the STEM focus. Now they are back with their follow-up second chapter!

Hand of Fate is a card-based roguelike that found funding through Kickstarter just over a year ago, and has now been released for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game blends the RPG and collectible card games genres easily and with a style that is bound to appeal to fans of both game types.

The two-man team at Ivent have made Strength of the Sword Ultimate, “the kind of game you beat instead of finish” after working “in the garage for five years”. Their efforts have already paid off with an initial $14,000 Kickstarter goal met for this “3D fighter vs brawler with old-school vibe”.

I love the classic Dungeons and Dragons Forgotten Realms settings, places like Blackmoor and Greyhawk, Neverwinter and Icewind Dale and more. But you can’t think about Dungeons and Dragons without the Sword Coast, bound by Baldur’s Gate and Waterdeep. This is the setting for the exciting upcoming game Sword Coast Legends – just announced, and we have a trailer!

Controller required for Moon Spider’s single player side-scrolling platformer Harold. This PC exclusive game also offers players two role-playing personas – superstar guardian angel Gabriel who gets matched up with the least talented runner named Harold.

SEGA (short for SErvice GAmes) recently encountered a setback in their continuing video game production, as their mainstay franchise didn’t make a big sales boom and instead lost some gold rings in the market.

Just over a year ago I reviewed Abyss: the Wraiths of Eden for the iPad, very much enjoying it and saying it had “an overall sense of fun that makes this a ‘keeper’. “ Also the “parallel to Bioshock made it even more fun to explore the world. “. Now G5 Entertainment is giving the game away for free!

When Alice Dahl leaves for a work trip and laments her job to her husband, she has no idea what turns of events awaits her. Mind Snares: Alice’s Journey tells the tale of what happens after she wakes up from a terrible car accident, and the lengths she has to explore to get home. Check it out!

GOG.com now offers a sweet six game suite from Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment, with five of them being launched with a week-long discount. This new partnership expands WB game reach and builds up GOG’s growing partnerships.

Real Time Strategy games continue to be popular on the PC, but they are about to open up to a whole new fan base with the upcoming alternate reality game Timelines: Assault On America Mobile. Timelines is launching on February 17th on iOS and Android, more than a year after it released on Mac & PC.

On February 13th Nintendo is releasing the creatively named ‘New Nintendo 3DS XL’, which we talked about here. Along with that announcement came the notice that the classic Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask was being released in 3D in a version optimized specially for the new handheld gaming system. Early reviews say the game looks great, so check it out!

Amazon is having another one of its amazing app deals, this time featuring 37 apps and games with a full retail price of $140 for FREE! Called the ‘Free App of the Day Bundle’, all of these games spent a day as a Free App, and are now all being re-listed as freebies!